NCL¶
NCL (NCAR Command Language) is an interpreted language designed specifically for scientific data analysis and visualization. NCAR provides official documentation regarding NCL.
Usage Summary¶
Cori¶
NCL is available on Cori as the module ncl
. To use:
module load ncl
ncl mycode.ncl
Add $NCAR
to the link line if needed. On Cori, the ncl module also provides the NCL compiler wrappers ncargf77
, ncargf90
, and ncargcc
, and it defines the environment variable NCAR
which contain the full list of compiler switches that can be used to compile NCL applications.
Perlmutter¶
NCL is avaiable on Perlmutter as part of the E4S software stack. To use:
module load e4s
spack env activate gcc
spack load --only package ncl
ncl mycode.ncl
Add -L/usr/lib64 -lX11 -lcairo -lfreetype
to the link line if needed. Notice each module or spack load command above can be relatively slow since it is making lots of environment configurations.
Related Documentation¶
The following is a list of related Web documentation for NCL: